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We’ve got a whole bunch of new releases from the Warner Archive to report this week. You can find them all over at the Warner Archive site. By the way, over the past few days the archive’s web site as been reintegrated into the general Warner Brothers store site. So it now has a slightly…

It’s time for some Blaxploitation awesomeness on the Forgotten Filmcast. This time, Elwood Jones of From the Depths of DVD Hell stops by to discuss Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite in 1976’s The Human Tornado. Download the Show: iTunes Podomatic Your Listen Show Notes: From the Depths of DVD Hell The Mad, Bad, and Downright…

Ann-Margret is an actress who continues to impress me. Whether she’s upstaging Elvis in Viva Las Vegas or rolling around in baked beans in Tommy, she brings incredible energy to each film she’s in. I won’t claim that every movie she’s been in is a classic, but her presence always makes things interesting. The 60’s…

We didn’t see any Warner Archive new releases last week since it was a holiday week. But they’re back this week with a handful of long-awaited titles. Remember, you can find these over at the Warner Archive site. – The First Deadly Sin (1980) – Star 80 (1983) – Michael Collins (1996) – Lovesick (1983)

It’s time for the next episode of Walt Sent Me! This time, Todd and Kristen are on the run with Will Smith and Gene Hackman for the 1998 thriller Enemy of the State. They also look at Disney’s first two-reel animated short Ben and Me. Download the Show: iTunes Podomatic Your Listen Show Notes: Music…

The Bowery Boys were the stars of one of the longest running film series of all time. They made 48 feature films, and that’s not even counting the films that many of the same actors made under other team names such as The Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids, and Little Tough Guys. That…

On the latest episode of the Forgotten Filmcast, Todd is joined by Robert Zerbe from To the Escape Hatch to discuss the 1986 horror film April Fool’s Day. Hey, after Halloween and Friday the 13th…why not? Download the Show: iTunes Podomatic Your Listen Show Notes: To the Escape Hatch Robert on Twitter Music Alley Movies…

When it comes to crazy college comedies, there is one film that stands high above the rest…1978’s Animal House. Many films tried to copy the formula. You could say that Revenge of the Nerds is Animal House with smart people; Police Academy is Animal House with cops. So why not Animal House goes white water…

Recently, I’ve made several guest appearances on other movie podcasts that I’d love my Forgotten Films readers to check out. First, it was my honor to appear on the latest episode of the Mad, Bad, and Downright Strange Showcase with host Elwood Jones. We discuss two films on the episode: Frank Oz’s musical version of…

On the newest episode of Walt Sent Me, Todd and Kristen discuss Hayley Mills (and Hayley Mills) in the 1961 classic The Parent Trap. They also look at the final Donald Duck short, also from 1961, The Litterbug. Download the Show: iTunes Podomatic Your Listen Show Notes: Music Alley

Two important names in the history of animation are Dave and Max Fleischer of the Fleischer Brothers Studio. They brought to the screen classic short films starring the likes of Betty Boop, Koko the Clown and Popeye. But the Fleischer film legacy doesn’t stop with animation. Max’s son, Richard Fleischer, went on to become a…

We all know by now that we’ve reached the future…the year Marty and Doc travel to in Back to the Future Part II. Sure Robert Zemeckis got a lot of things wrong about the future in that one, but I still love that his vision is a happy future. There are flying cars, no lawyers,…